{"id":1686,"date":"2020-07-31T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T08:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2022-02-18T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T11:03:04","slug":"long-term-follow-up-to-whi-study-proves-lower-breast-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/news\/long-term-follow-up-to-whi-study-proves-lower-breast-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Term Follow-up to WHI Study Proves Lower Breast Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>&nbsp;31st July 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new, important study has just been published in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)<\/a>&nbsp;which is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This study has shown that women who have had a hysterectomy and take oestrogen only HRT for more than 20 years had a LOWER risk of developing breast cancer and a LOWER risk of dying from breast cancer compared to women not taking&nbsp;HRT. Dr Louise Newson says that after a hysterectomy, the majority of women should take HRT as there are numerous long-term health benefits that come with replacing oestrogen, including a lower risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression and dementia. Lowering future risk of breast cancer is another advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new study also shows that there is a small increased risk of developing breast cancer in women who take oestrogen with a synthetic progestogen &#8211; but&nbsp;there is&nbsp;no increased risk of death from breast cancer. However, the risk is lower (if at all) for women who take oestrogen with&nbsp;micronised progesterone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about the study, Dr Newson said; &#8220;I really hope the media and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0MHRA<\/a>\u00a0read and report on this study. Women deserve to be told the truth about HRT.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2768806?resultClick=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here to read the study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published:&nbsp;31st July 2020 A new, important study has just been published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}